intensate
verb/ɪnˈtɛnseɪt/
Etymology From intense + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
1
Archaic To intensify.
- In startling transitions, in colours all intensated, the sublime, the ludicrous, the horrible succeed one another.1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- Again, as if to intensate the influences that are not of race, what we think of when we talk of English traits really narrows itself to a small district.1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits: